Associate Program Manager

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Taylor manages grants, fellowships and awards as an associate program manager at the IWMF. She discovered a love for nonprofit work and supporting marginalized journalists through her board positions with the Asian American Journalists Association and the Chicago Headline Club, where she helped plan events, trainings, internships and mentorship programs. She joined the IWMF in 2021.

Taylor has worked as a freelance journalist for more than five years, covering social justice movements, politics and the environment in Chicago. She’s written for The Guardian, The New Republic, VICE, Columbia Journalism Review, Chicago Reader and many other publications. She has been a grantee with the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Originally from China, Taylor grew up in Orlando, Florida, and graduated from the University of Central Florida.